The Deliberate Dumming Down of America

[OxQQme]

<quote>

Anyone interested in the truth will be shocked
by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect
of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist
world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists.
-Foreword, The Deliberate Dumming Down of America


http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf

[Robb]

1. Excuse me

...but my irony meter has pegged and shorted out. :rofl:

[Better Today]

9. Looks like a lot of us caught that. ROFL

[JohnnyLib2]

18. Love it!

:rofl:

[Avalux]

2. Please spell the word "dumbing" correctly.

Especially important in this post. ;)

[seabeyond]

3. lol lol. bah hahahha. that is so funny. nt

[treestar]

6. Maybe it was meant that way

That said, America did not have to cooperate. We could have rejected the easy route and tried harder.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

37. Nah. It's spelled "dumbing" in the link the OP provided.

From the preface:

"The socialist/fascist global workforce training agenda is being implemented as I write
this book."

And a note from the author after mildly chastising Reagan:

"As a conservative Republican, it has not been easy to come to the above conclusion regarding the
role of the Republican Party in the “deliberate dumbing down” of America. At the same time, I must
add that it is very likely the Democratic Party would have been even more steadfast in implementing
the same agenda, had it been in a position to do so. This march to destruction seems to join all forces
under its banner."

[EmeraldCityGrl]

35. Tough Crowd.

[seabeyond]

4. the education is out there for our kids and adults too. choices. nt

[Skink]

5. That was during the Bush years.

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[glowing]

8. Dumbing down probably.. but not for socialistic purposes. Its for non-thinking

workers who mindlessly follow the coporate logo their entire lives.. living like slaves all the while proclaiming they are "free" Americans and are number 1 when the fact clearly show that they are not. And the mind-numbing is evident every black friday when the sheeples line up early and often for cheap crap produced by people in other countries who have taken their jobs.. hence the lining up at early times for cheap crap they couldn't afford otherwise.

[natrat]

19. he means corporate socialism, silly

[LWolf]

10. What a pathetic screed.

Do you want to talk about what is really wrong with the system?

Let us know. There are plenty of teachers who can explain it.

[StarfarerBill]

11. "Dumming" down? Well, *dumbing* down, yes;

"socialist world government"...I can only wish.

But this OP really is proof of its own thesis...

[WilliamPitt]

12. Ow. Ow.

My brain hurts.

[Demoiselle]

16. I love the pic, Will Pitt. But what exactly is happening?

Did the Champagne plug just pop out? Or is he shaking up a beer? (Yes, sometimes I am dumm.)

[WilliamPitt]

22. I think he hit himself in the eye with the cork

Series.

[Demoiselle]

32. Ah yes. I see it now. Fine illustrations for the thread.Thanks.

[Deja Q]

13. Do people even know the meaning of the word "socialist"?

Or "egalitarian" or "Christian" or even "toothpaste" for that matter?

Parents won't discipline and/or allow the television to be the nanny. That's closer to identifying the root problems than some tinfoil hat fodder.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

38. No. If Rush and Hannity started saying Obama was implementing an evil Socialist, Fascist Toothpaste

agenda on the economy, within 24 hours you'd have trolls on DU equating the word toothpaste and the word socialist.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Started in the late 40's...culmanated in the Selection of W Bush

Dumming Down has been evident for years now....

[unpossibles]

15. oh, irony.... you are still alive

I don't disagree the world has ben dummed down - or been dumbed down for those nasty elitist literates out there - but I don't think it's for the cause of Socialism so much as for the cause of the Conservative movement.

Seriously, when people generally think of hampering education and promoting a distrust of information, it's not progressives I immediately imagine, it's the Right from religious right groups to Rush Limbaugh. After all, they are the ones who are always complaining about how schools are Liberal brainwashing centers, and who go off on how proud they are to be completely ignorant of the world.

[Warren Stupidity]

17. Warning: reading the linked article will make you dumber.

[Shandris]

20. You know you have a REAL winner of a thesis on your hands...

...when there is a complete and total shortcircuit of logic in the second paragraph of the Preface. It's not often you get to see the self-destruction of an argument telegraphed so early, but this 'commendable' (snicker) author completely manages to do so.

Sure to be an American classic. Just LOOK at the Chapter names. The 'Sick' Sixties and the 'Effective' Eighties. I think...that pretty much summarizes the book. I'd be looking for a copy of it at my nearest bulk-ordered conservative bookstore (right next to Sarah Failin' and Carrie Preschool) if it weren't for the fact that it was...a ten year old screed.

Isn't it about time there's a law against people using the term 'Socialist' if they have no damn idea what the hell it means? :-)

[Ozymanithrax]

21. Clearly, OxQQme, you proved your post...

The "deliberate dumming down of America" has gone farther than even you think.

Certainly, holding up a staunch conservative like Congressman like John M. Ashbrook who ran against Nixon (because Nixon wasn't conservative enough). This man who Reagan lionized with the words,

"John Ashbrook was a man of courage and principle. He served his constituents and his country with dedication and devotion, always working towards the betterment of his fellow man. His patriotism and deep belief in the greatness of America never wavered and his articulate and passionate calls for a return to old-fashioned American values earned him the respect of all who knew him."

This man whose slogan in his run against Nixon was "No Left Turns" has been overlooked as a mentor for education on this site.

[leeroysphitz]

23. Way to read the thread before posting...

[Ozymanithrax]

24. I do like to state my own thoughts rather than regurgatate others.

It alsotook time to look at the site he forwarded us to.

Certainly, holding up a staunch conservative like Congressman like John M. Ashbrook who ran against Nixon (because Nixon wasn't conservative enough). This man who Reagan lionized with the words,

"John Ashbrook was a man of courage and principle. He served his constituents and his country with dedication and devotion, always working towards the betterment of his fellow man. His patriotism and deep belief in the greatness of America never wavered and his articulate and passionate calls for a return to old-fashioned American values earned him the respect of all who knew him."

This man whose slogan in his run against Nixon was "No Left Turns" has been overlooked as a mentor for education on this site.

[marshall]

25. Or it can be looked at as the common denominator

One person's dumbing down is another person's common denominator.

And it allows more people to participate at the table.

[Turbineguy]

26. Yes.

This dumbing down, practiced for over a century resulted in America putting a man on the Moon. I mean, what kind of idea was that?

[snagglepuss]

27. It's ironic that Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in America isn't mentioned

This book which won a Pulitzer Prize is a must read.

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Or for that matter Jacoby's the Age of Unreason

I know. I actually downloaded this and went through a cursory look of it.

[notesdev]

28. Reccing a potential classic

not that the premise is wrong, but I do love irony.

[951-Riverside]

29. Your right OxQQme but your grammer is less then impeckable n/t

[Orsino]

30. They didn't let chattel slaves learn to read...

...and aren't wild about us wage slaves doing so, either.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

31. Way to edjumacate da masses.

:rofl:

PLEASE tell me that was deliberate...

[certainot]

33. go back to the radio

[Odin2005]

34. As shown by your spelling?

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

39. IRONY is so important to humor.